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Foundational leadership features for v7
The following foundational leadership features have been implemented:
Overview
- Improvements to lower total cost of implementation with the Madisons and Elite starter stores
- Management Center improvements for creating customer segments, content, and e-Marketing Spots
- Support for sales catalogs in asset stores and extended site stores
- Improved ability to load catalog, pricing and inventory data using the Data Load utility
- Upgraded software stack, including...
- WebSphere Application Server v7
- DB2 v9.5
- Rational Application Developer v7.5
- Support for Polish, Russian, and Romanian in WebSphere Commerce tools, starter stores, and documentation
Feature pack 1 includes...
- localized starter stores for China and Brazil
- improvements in business user tooling
- reduces the total cost of implementation of WebSphere Commerce
Localized starter stores
- Localized Starter Store for China
Customized to the Chinese market, this starter store delivers a rich experience out-of-the box. Features include: content rich home page, browse history, product ranking, digital coupons and support for local payment service provides such as Ali Pay.
- Localized Starter Store for Brazil
Customized to the Brazilian market, this starter store provides a localized shopping experience. Features include: installment payments, deferred payments, payment-based promotions and support for local payment methods including Boleto Bancário
Management Center enhancements
Out-of-the-box catalog management has been enhanced to allow you to update product data using comma separated values (CSV) files and perform automated SKU generation.
Reducing the total cost of implementation
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale integration extends the WebSphere Commerce cache to a high performance, network-attached elastic cache with no custom development.
- A revised order processing subsystem simplifies and reduces customization effort, improves programming interfaces, and provides easy extension points for most common extension scenarios.
- The data load tools now allow for efficient loading of catalog, pricing, and inventory information into WebSphere Commerce workspaces.
- A new HTML asset supplies a robust set of HTML and CSS wire-frames that implement complete shopping flows in the Madisons and Elite starter stores, and can be used to accelerate the design phase of most projects.
- The test assets package offers a fully functional set of test scripts for the Madisons and Elite starter stores.
- A new modifiable use case document for enabling out of the box features will reduce the time required to document use cases for the store.
Related concepts
Madisons starter store
IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
Overview of the data load utility